Garment-supporter.



No. 849,906. PATENTED APR. 9, 1907.

H. e. MAGWILLIAM.

GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED M41111, 1906.

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HUGH GORDON MAOWILLIAM, OF NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 9, 1907.

Application filed March 31, 1906. Serial No. 309,144:-

To ail whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HUGH GORDON MAc- WILLIAM, residing at New Rochelle, in the county of YVestchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in garment-supporters of the class wherein the garments are supported by means of flat straps or tapes passing runningly through a loop or loops to equalize the strains, the object being partic ularly to improve upon the construction disclosed in Patent No. 771,990, granted to me on the 11th day of October, 1904.

To this end the invention consists in the features of combination, construction, and arrangement of parts hereinafter particularly described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front view of a pair of suspenders containing my improvements. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof. Fig. 3 is a front view of the loop connection with the sleeve in section, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the loop connection.

In the drawings, A represents a supporting part shown in the form of a strap folded upon itself to form a Suspender-end with buttontabs 2. Carried by the supporting part is my improved loop connection B. This comprises two registering loops 3 and 4, arranged in different planes to receive the running straps O and D, respectively, and preferably a third loop 5 at the base of one of the registering loops for attachment to the suspenderend.

In'the drawings I have shown my preferred form of loop connection. As there shown, the two loop members, comprising the loop connection, are hinged together by means of a sleeve 6, which inclosed the lower bars 7 and 8, respectively, of the members. One of the loop members carries a cross-bar 9, so positioned as to form a loop between it and the lower bar 8 of just suflicient height to permit the strap forming the suspender-end to be passed through. When thus passed through the loop 5 and folded upon itself, the suspender-end strap is secured upon itself by means of stitching 10.

The running straps comprise a main strap O, passing through the front loop 3, and an auxiliary strap 'D, secured at its ends by stitching 1 1 to the main strap and passing in: termediately through the rear loop 4 in the same direction in which the main strap passes through the front loop 3.

To obtain some freedom of play between the loops for the running straps, it is desirable that they be hinged together. It is also important to reduce as much as possible the thickness of the connection and to prevent relative twisting of the loops. Instead, therefore, of arranging the loops 7 and 8 side by side within the sleeve 6 I form the side bars 12 of the member carrying the loops 4 and 5 with an offset 13, so that its lower bar 8 will lie in thesame vertical plane as the lower bar of the other loop member.

Among the objects of my invention is to prevent the loop connection from being drawn endwise through the fold of the suspender-end and tilted or turned angularly into a position Where the running straps will become drawn or bunched in one end of the loop, to minimize and equalize the friction between the loops and running straps when the straps are drawn in either direction, and to prevent relative twisting of the loops. These objects are accomplished by the bar 9, by the inclosing sleeve 6, with the loop members secured in vertical alinement therein, and by having the. straps O and D run through the loops in the same direction.

I claim 1. In combination with a supportingstrap, a loop connection comprising two registering loops for running straps, and a connected attachingloop, the attachingloop being of just sufficient height to receive the supporting-strap, whereby bunching of the strap within said loop is prevented.

2. The combination with a supportingstrap, of a loop connection comprising two loop members formed with registering loops, and a crossbar carried by one of said loop members in position to form a loop between it and the bottom of said loop member of just sufficient height to receive the supporting-strap, for the purpose set forth.

3. In an article ofthe class described, in combination, a supporting member, a pair of registering hinged loops and a pair of connected straps passing runningly, one through one loop, and the other through the other loop, both straps passing through said loops in the same direction, for the purpose set forth.

4. A loop connection for running straps, In testimony whereof I afiix my signature comprising two loop mefmlplers, a sleeve in presence of two witnesses. closing the lower bars 0 t e mem ers an constituting a hinge therefor, the lower bar HUGH GORDOB MAOWHLIAM' 5 of one member lying in the same vertical Witnesses:

plane within the sleeve as the lower bar of V. LEPLATTENIER, the other member, for the purpose set forth. E. I. BENNETT. 

